NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 128, 21 July 1870, Page 7

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A young barrister was sent to gaol by the Dublin Police Court on M;<y 10, for a month, for wrenching off knockers. Tho Magee Presbyterian College, Londonderry, it has been decided by the Court of Queen's,.. Bench, was not a charitable institution within the meaning of the Act exempting such institutions from payment of rates. The Archbishop of Dublin, in a letter to a lay member of the Church, says :— «" I consider it altogether wrong for members of the Church to be present at, or to take part in, either Roman Catholic or Dissenting services." The sale of a property in Roscommon with 500 years' lease, offered in the Landed Estates Court on April 23, was, for the fourth time, adjourned, and Judge Flanagan stated that an intending purchaser had received a letter catitioning him not to buy the estate. Mrs. Mackay has returned to Cork after visiting her husband, " Captain " Mackay, in Portland prison. She reports that he had so far recovered from a recent attack of chest disease that he had been removed from the hospital, and that he was in good spirits, and bore his imprisonment with fortitude. The Commissioners on primary education in Ireland have just presented their report, in which it is stated that they i-ecommend the maintenance of the national system, with the important and very curious" exception, that in parishes where the population is all Roman Catholic, or where it is all Protestant, the denominational system | shall be introduced^ The greatest procession which has ' ever been witnessed in Ulster passed through the streets of Belfast on May 14, in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the Belfast Working Men's Institute, which is to cost £6000. The foundation stone was laid by Miss Charters, daughter of the largest contributor. Belfast town wore quite a holiday appearaace all the afternoon, and the proceedings were of a most harmonious character. An. American paper proposes " Justifiable Insanity " as a convenient form of verdict in many cases. The richest gold mine in California yielded last year a profit of 340,000 dollars.. A correspondent of an American paper "took tea" Avith a Mormon elder at Salt Lake City the other day, at which six wives " presided," and twenty-seven children, sat round the , table. During the late American war a coloured preacher, feeling constrained to preach against the extortions of the i sutlers, from which his little flock- had suffered, announced for his text, "Now de serpent was more sutler dan any beast of de field." A lady in Michigan has recently recovered her reason after being insane twenty -three years. The interval has been a blank, but she remembers vividly whatever occurred before it, and sadly puzzles her new friends by her stories of " what occurred a few weeks ago." The case of Mr O'Connor, of King's County, whose nose was cut off some weeks ago by a band of ruffians, excited attention even in a land of outrages by its exceptional atrocity. The sequel of the story, however, is very different from the beginning. Mr. O'Connor's mutilation has led to one of the greatest surgical feats ever accomplished. A new nose, fashioned out of his own flesh, has been fitted upon him with admirable success. An incision was made in the forehead, and a portion of the living flesh skilfully drawn down, fashioned into the proper form whilst still warm and plastic, and fitted to the stump of the mutilated feature, the skin being artistically drawn over the scar. Mr. O'Connor will be but slightly disfigured. His friends say that the new nose looks better than the old one. The Australian, Government (says the " Spectator"), particularly that of New. South Wales, are devising elaborate plans to. attract immigrants. Lands are to be set apart, and emigrants to be tested by their willingness to work for them, and all manner of restrictions are to be placed upon the persons assisted, so that none but the most worthy, may be imported with colonial money. Surely, if the colony really wants good men, a much simpler course is open to its rulers. Let them send over a clever agent, offer a free passage^ a week's maintenance, and thirty acres, and then pick and choose among applicants. They would have the very flower of the agricultural labourers under thirty, just the very men they want. Nothing will ever be done if they insist on making their immigrants begin the new life by " working the dead-horse." They want to be rid of the dead-horse ; they have had a enough of tugging at that at

The following appears in " Land and Water :"— " Sir,— Mr. Bartlett wants a quantity of live young rooks to send out to colonise New Zealand. I hope to aid this good movement by sending him my contingent, and if other proprietors of rookeries near London would also assist, I am sure their contributions would be most thankfully received; and how pleasing it would be in after years to think that the rooks from such and such a rookery helped to people one of our greatest possessions. — F. H. Salvin."